diff --git a/updater/cmd.bash b/updater/cmd.bash
index 458edc831e..4b3129b4a4 100644
--- a/updater/cmd.bash
+++ b/updater/cmd.bash
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ git clone --depth=1 "$REPO_DATA" api-data
 
 # set up the pokeapi side
 cd pokeapi
-git apply ../disable-rate-limit.patch
 
 docker volume create --name=redis_data
 docker volume create --name=pg_data
diff --git a/updater/disable-rate-limit.patch b/updater/disable-rate-limit.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index be092e8629..0000000000
--- a/updater/disable-rate-limit.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/Resources/nginx/nginx.conf b/Resources/nginx/nginx.conf
-index a8841fe..8346c0a 100644
---- a/Resources/nginx/nginx.conf
-+++ b/Resources/nginx/nginx.conf
-@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ http {
-         server app:8000 fail_timeout=0;
-     }
- 
--    limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=api:10m rate=2r/s;
-+    # limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=api:10m rate=2r/s;
- 
-     server {
-         listen 80 deferred;
-@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ http {
-             add_header Cache-Control "public";
-             add_header Pragma public;
- 
--            limit_req zone=api burst=10;
-+            # limit_req zone=api burst=10;
- 
-             proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-             proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-diff --git a/config/settings.py b/config/settings.py
-index 1b2731b..44bab3e 100755
---- a/config/settings.py
-+++ b/config/settings.py
-@@ -161,12 +161,12 @@ REST_FRAMEWORK = {
-     'PAGE_SIZE': 20,
- 
-     'PAGINATE_BY': 20,
--    'DEFAULT_THROTTLE_CLASSES': (
--        'rest_framework.throttling.AnonRateThrottle',
--    ),
--    'DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES': {
--        'anon': '1000/hour'
--    }
-+#    'DEFAULT_THROTTLE_CLASSES': (
-+#        'rest_framework.throttling.AnonRateThrottle',
-+#    ),
-+#    'DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES': {
-+#        'anon': '1000/hour'
-+#    }
- }
- 
- MARKDOWN_DEUX_STYLES = {